Hard cases, the maxim goes, make bad law. So it is hardly surprising that the Connecticut General Assembly is poised to weigh in on the use of deadly force by police officers with a sloppy piece of legislation. I wonder, really, whether new laws are necessary. And if they are, I harbor doubts about the bill unanimously passed by the Senate.
This year’s domestic news has been dominated by films of protest and reaction in Ferguson, Missouri, endless videos of a fatal police takedown on Staten Island, and, let’s not forget, the killing of Freddy Gray in Baltimore. Did I neglect to mention the police shooting of the unarmed man in North Charleston, South Carolina? My bad.
